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Free admission, but due to limited seating please email the organizer if you would like to attend:
Heikki Ikäheimo, UNSW Sydney, h.ikaheimo@unsw.edu.au
200 years after his birth Karl Marx is again the object

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Free admission, but due to limited seating please email the organizer if you would like to attend:

200 years after his birth Karl Marx is again the object of intensive engagement among scholars, theorists and activists. Since the last major wave of Marx-reception, after the end of the last cold war and the fall of state sponsored Marxist-Leninist orthodoxy, many things have changed. Marx’s name is no-more immediately associated with one side of a confrontation between two world-powers both seeking global domination, a situation in which strategic considerations often crowded out meticulous thought. Also, despite Marx’s own self-understanding he is nowadays increasingly read as a social and political philosopher, even if certainly of a very critical kind. The younger generations now read Marx with fresh eyes untainted by the bitterness of those engaged in bygone battles, and the latter (on both sides) have a chance for a new reception of and critical reflection on the theory and philosophy of Karl Marx, its influences, its problems, and its contemporary relevance. ‘Marx 2.0’ brings together philosophers and political theorists from Germany, United States, Canada and Australia, and presents a range of contemporary approaches to Marx’s work and to thinkers closely related to it.

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The Indo-Pacific strategic landscape is becoming more challenging, driving greater security coordination between the United States and its regional allies. Australia and Japan are at the

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The Indo-Pacific strategic landscape is becoming more challenging, driving greater security coordination between the United States and its regional allies. Australia and Japan are at the forefront of this group. As capable security partners that share a common vision for an open and rule-governed regional order, the two countries are strengthening their special strategic partnership and playing a more active role in collective security initiatives. From responding to maritime tensions in the East and South China Seas, to deepening defence interoperability and deterring grey-zone coercion, the United States, Australia, and Japan are already coordinating on a range of shared challenges. There are, however, obstacles to address and underexplored avenues for further security cooperation.

To learn more about these important strategic trends, please join us for a public panel discussion with international experts Dr Tomohiko Satake (Japan), Dr Lavina Lee (Australia), and Mr Lyle Morris (United States).

Featuring

Ashley Townshend

Director, Foreign Policy, Defence and Strategy, United States Studies Centre

Ashley Townshend is Director, Foreign Policy, Defence and Strategy at the United States Studies Centre. He works on US-Asia relations, alliance politics, and international security. He also lectures at the University of Sydney and previously worked at the Lowy Institute for International Policy.

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When Walkley Talks return to the State Library of NSW in February 2018, join us for a screening of the new independent documentary film Disaster Capitalism, written and co-produced by independent

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When Walkley Talks return to the State Library of NSW in February 2018, join us for a screening of the new independent documentary film Disaster Capitalism, written and co-produced by independent journalist and author Antony Loewenstein, followed by a discussion about freelancing, war reporting, filmmaking, objectivity in conflict zones, the role of journalism and aid.

Filmmaker Antony Loewenstein says, “Disaster Capitalism challenges the concepts of aid and development in Afghanistan, Haiti, Papua New Guinea and the US through the lives of local people and my eyes as an investigative journalist.” Disaster Capitalism is directed by Thor Neureiter and co-produced by Media Stockade.

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Join five of the world’s top scholars who’ll speak on the question of why city citizen activism is an essential ingredient for reviving democratic practice, at a time when civic voices appear under threat.

They will explore stories from places as diverse as Moscow, Los Angeles, Hong Kong, Barcelona, Vallejo California and Sydney.

In a growing number of cities, citizens are challenging their frustration with existing citizen engagement processes into the creation of urban alliances and/or citizen platforms that bring together diverse civil society actors to articulate and pursue common interests.

In the first global research project of its kind, we have already identified over 100 urban alliances across the world.

The speakers

Dr Amanda Tattersall (Host) is an urban geographer and experienced community organiser. She co-founded GetUp.org.au, founded the Sydney Alliance, is the Host of the ChangeMakers podcast and is the author of ‘Power in Coalition.’ She is currently a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the University of Sydney, researching Urban Alliances.

Professor Helga Leitner, currently Professor of Geography at the University of California Los Angeles, received her PhD in Geography and Urban and Regional Planning from the University of Vienna, Austria. She has spent most of her career in North America studying immigration, cities, citizenship and communities, urban social movements and civic activism, and questions of social justice and cultural diversity.

Professor Simon Tormey works in the fields of political theory, European politics, social critique and continental thought at the University of Sydney. He was appointed to Sydney in 2009 as inaugural Head of the newly created School of Social and Political Sciences. Previously he had been Head of the School of Politics and International Relations and founding Director of the Centre for the Study of Social and Global Justice (CSSGJ) at the University of Nottingham in the UK. His current research concerns the nature of the crisis confronting democratic societies, political practice in Barcelona, the rise of populism and the impact of ICT on participation and mobilisation.

Associate Prof Kurt Iveson is Associate Professor of Urban Geography at the University of Sydney. His research focuses on the relationship between cities and citizenship. Kurt is also an active participant in the Sydney Alliance, Branch President of the University of Sydney branch of the NTEU, and hosts a fortnightly radio show about urban environmental issues on Radio FBi.

Associate Professor Mark Davidson is an Associate Professor of Geography at Clark University. He is an urban geographer whose research examines the relationship between cities and politics, and the drivers of contemporary urban change. Professor Davidson has an international reputation for his research on gentrification, critical urban theory and urban sustainability.

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Intensive farming in urban areas and the areas on the outskirts of our metropolitan areas and cities, holds much promise for delivering healthy and safe food to our cities in an economically efficient and environmentally friendly manner. Research on urban farms shows that not only do they provide local employment, but can serve as hubs of innovation in agricultural technology and logistics.

But urban farms also face challenges from regulation, standardisation, food testing and issues of land use and the hyper-commodification of urban real estate.

Join a panel of passionate people working in urban agriculture, to discuss the future of urban farming, and how it can be integrated into the urban economic and ecological system.

Chair:

Associate Professor Robyn Alders is a Principal Research Fellow, School of Life and Environmental Sciences and member of Sydney Institute of Agriculture and the Charles Perkins Centre at the University of Sydney. For over 20 years, she has worked closely with smallholder farmers in Africa and Asia as a veterinarian, researcher and colleague.

Speakers:

Megan Battaglia is a current Masters of Sustainability student at the University of Sydney. After graduating a BA in Sociology and Human Geography, Megan spent two years in Latin America working with a non-profit organisation in community education and engagement. Megan’s research interests include urban agriculture, Indigenous natural resource management and sustainable community development.

Dr Lenore Newman is a writer and urban geographer. She holds a Canada Research Chair in Food Security and Environment, and is an Associate Professor of Geography and the Environment at the University of the Fraser Valley. studies culinary geographies, and researches food security, with a focus on farmland preservation, the dynamics of the rural-urban edge, and agri-urban landscapes.

Toby Whittington is CEO and founder of Green World Revolution (GWR), a not-for-profit environmental, social enterprise organisation. GWR is dedicated to growing jobs for the unemployed through the development of a thriving, sustainable urban agriculture industry and the creation of new urban food systems in Western Australia.

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This public lecture is an associate event of the Sydney Chinese New Year Festival 2018.
Reports of increasing childhood overweight and obesity originally came from developed countries, but in recent years,

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This public lecture is an associate event of the Sydney Chinese New Year Festival 2018.

Reports of increasing childhood overweight and obesity originally came from developed countries, but in recent years, countries undergoing rapid economic development and urbanization, such as China, have joined the trend.

A recent inter-country study shows that younger Chinese children have experienced greater increases in body mass index, a measurement of fatness, than their counterparts in the United Kingdom, the United States of America and Australia. Larger body size or rapid growth in the first couple of years of life is a predictor of increased obesity later in life. Furthermore, childhood obesity can lead to long-term adverse health effects, such as metabolic and cardiovascular risks.

This talk highlights the trend of the childhood obesity epidemic in China and outlines the actions required to curb this public health concern.

Professor Mu Li
Professor Mu Li is the Director and Professor of International Public Health, Sydney School of Public Health, the University of Sydney.

A trained physician, Dr Li’s main areas of research and teaching are public health nutrition, prevention of childhood obesity and the double burden of malnutrition, health and nutritional behavioural change communications; and nutrition sensitive approach to improvement of maternal and child nutrition.

Professor Li has extensive experiences in international collaborative research. She led an international collaboration of promoting healthy infant and young child feeding using mobile phone text messages which was one of the first studies of applying health in maternal and child health in the world

Recently, Professor Li brought together academics and researchers from China and Australia contributing to a book Urbanization and Public Health in China critically examining the human costs and public health consequences of China’s economic development

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Join five of the world’s top scholars who’ll speak on the question of why city citizen activism is an essential ingredient for reviving democratic practice, at a time when civic voices appear under threat.

They will explore stories from places as diverse as Moscow, Los Angeles, Hong Kong, Barcelona, Vallejo California and Sydney.

In a growing number of cities, citizens are challenging their frustration with existing citizen engagement processes into the creation of urban alliances and/or citizen platforms that bring together diverse civil society actors to articulate and pursue common interests.

In the first global research project of its kind, we have already identified over 100 urban alliances across the world.

The speakers

Dr Amanda Tattersall (Host) is an urban geographer and experienced community organiser. She co-founded GetUp.org.au, founded the Sydney Alliance, is the Host of the ChangeMakers podcast and is the author of ‘Power in Coalition.’ She is currently a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the University of Sydney, researching Urban Alliances.

Professor Helga Leitner, currently Professor of Geography at the University of California Los Angeles, received her PhD in Geography and Urban and Regional Planning from the University of Vienna, Austria. She has spent most of her career in North America studying immigration, cities, citizenship and communities, urban social movements and civic activism, and questions of social justice and cultural diversity.

Professor Simon Tormey works in the fields of political theory, European politics, social critique and continental thought at the University of Sydney. He was appointed to Sydney in 2009 as inaugural Head of the newly created School of Social and Political Sciences. Previously he had been Head of the School of Politics and International Relations and founding Director of the Centre for the Study of Social and Global Justice (CSSGJ) at the University of Nottingham in the UK. His current research concerns the nature of the crisis confronting democratic societies, political practice in Barcelona, the rise of populism and the impact of ICT on participation and mobilisation.

Associate Prof Kurt Iveson is Associate Professor of Urban Geography at the University of Sydney. His research focuses on the relationship between cities and citizenship. Kurt is also an active participant in the Sydney Alliance, Branch President of the University of Sydney branch of the NTEU, and hosts a fortnightly radio show about urban environmental issues on Radio FBi.

Associate Professor Mark Davidson is an Associate Professor of Geography at Clark University. He is an urban geographer whose research examines the relationship between cities and politics, and the drivers of contemporary urban change. Professor Davidson has an international reputation for his research on gentrification, critical urban theory and urban sustainability.

Event Details

Free admission, but due to limited seating please email the organizer if you would like to attend:
Heikki Ikäheimo, UNSW Sydney, h.ikaheimo@unsw.edu.au
200 years after his birth Karl Marx is again the object

Event Details

Free admission, but due to limited seating please email the organizer if you would like to attend:

200 years after his birth Karl Marx is again the object of intensive engagement among scholars, theorists and activists. Since the last major wave of Marx-reception, after the end of the last cold war and the fall of state sponsored Marxist-Leninist orthodoxy, many things have changed. Marx’s name is no-more immediately associated with one side of a confrontation between two world-powers both seeking global domination, a situation in which strategic considerations often crowded out meticulous thought. Also, despite Marx’s own self-understanding he is nowadays increasingly read as a social and political philosopher, even if certainly of a very critical kind. The younger generations now read Marx with fresh eyes untainted by the bitterness of those engaged in bygone battles, and the latter (on both sides) have a chance for a new reception of and critical reflection on the theory and philosophy of Karl Marx, its influences, its problems, and its contemporary relevance. ‘Marx 2.0’ brings together philosophers and political theorists from Germany, United States, Canada and Australia, and presents a range of contemporary approaches to Marx’s work and to thinkers closely related to it.

Event Details

The Indo-Pacific strategic landscape is becoming more challenging, driving greater security coordination between the United States and its regional allies. Australia and Japan are at the

Event Details

The Indo-Pacific strategic landscape is becoming more challenging, driving greater security coordination between the United States and its regional allies. Australia and Japan are at the forefront of this group. As capable security partners that share a common vision for an open and rule-governed regional order, the two countries are strengthening their special strategic partnership and playing a more active role in collective security initiatives. From responding to maritime tensions in the East and South China Seas, to deepening defence interoperability and deterring grey-zone coercion, the United States, Australia, and Japan are already coordinating on a range of shared challenges. There are, however, obstacles to address and underexplored avenues for further security cooperation.

To learn more about these important strategic trends, please join us for a public panel discussion with international experts Dr Tomohiko Satake (Japan), Dr Lavina Lee (Australia), and Mr Lyle Morris (United States).

Featuring

Ashley Townshend

Director, Foreign Policy, Defence and Strategy, United States Studies Centre

Ashley Townshend is Director, Foreign Policy, Defence and Strategy at the United States Studies Centre. He works on US-Asia relations, alliance politics, and international security. He also lectures at the University of Sydney and previously worked at the Lowy Institute for International Policy.

Event Details

When Walkley Talks return to the State Library of NSW in February 2018, join us for a screening of the new independent documentary film Disaster Capitalism, written and co-produced by independent

Event Details

When Walkley Talks return to the State Library of NSW in February 2018, join us for a screening of the new independent documentary film Disaster Capitalism, written and co-produced by independent journalist and author Antony Loewenstein, followed by a discussion about freelancing, war reporting, filmmaking, objectivity in conflict zones, the role of journalism and aid.

Filmmaker Antony Loewenstein says, “Disaster Capitalism challenges the concepts of aid and development in Afghanistan, Haiti, Papua New Guinea and the US through the lives of local people and my eyes as an investigative journalist.” Disaster Capitalism is directed by Thor Neureiter and co-produced by Media Stockade.